Pixel,
I tried to do a Cooker install with both the tree and target
partitions on aa IBM ATA100 disk drive accessed through the Promise
Mass Storage Device chip on my new motherboard as /dev/hdg.
I was dismayed to discover that the current Cooker /images/hd/img
cannot see /dev/hdg, making an install impossible. I expect the same
to be true of those users using the Promise Mass Storage card (same
chip) with older systems.
An attempted install of 7.2 from CD will fail for the same reason,
but it is corrected in the current set of 7.2 updates. My current
7.2 is running very happily from hdg8, placed there by a PM partition
copy then chrooted edits to /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf and a run
of /sbin/lilo. These done from another partition copy of that 7.2
partition to hda12 (hda is not on the mass storasge controller) and
the same chroot process to make it bootable and operational before
moving the fast disk from hdc to the Promise system as hdg8.
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I think it inescapable that 7.2 and Cooker (both tree (floppy images,
etc) and isos) are reissued supporting ATA100 drives, since there are
so many already in the market and 7.2 is the current Mandrake Linux.
MandrakrSoft plainly already has the technology.
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Partition Magic 5.0 recognises these Mass Storage devices out of the
box, but Windows 98 SE and tomsrtbt unfortunately do not. I mean
that installing a Promise card or motherboard in my case caused
Win98SE to totally lose all its device drivers and leave me in a real
mess. Reinstalling Windows did not help. The Promise software on
the Promise CD runs only under Windows - catch 22 <g>.
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Regards,
Ron. [au]
